My Dad's first Beech was a fractional with two doctors. It was a nightmare.
They would take it without scheduling, never clean it up when they were done, just a general disregard for the other owners as a whole. After we showed up at the hangar for a weekend trip to our place on Sanibel Island and the plane was nowhere to be found, he pulled the plug and bought his own plane. A nice Beech V35 with full IFR (Dad had an IFR ticket as well as a number of others, including instructor.) N899T, which lives on in Kansas these days, I believe. I have over 400 hours of left seat time in that airframe. Dan who's ticket long expired..... Sent from my iPad > On Feb 28, 2014, at 10:32 AM, G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A word of caution regarding fractional ownership of an aircraft. Well, > actually several words.. > > Pick your fellow owners more carefully than you pick a wife. They can > ultimately do you great harm. Reduce every aspect of said ownership to > written contract and add financial enforcements to each clause. Airplanes > are an expensive mistress that makes designer shoes and handbags seem like > a shopping trip to the local five and dime.. Unlike aforementioned mistress > if they do not get what they demand, they do not preform after pouting for > a while.. [ please don't as how I may know this]. > > Simple things, like even tune ups and oil changes, require log book entry > for each act preformed on the airplane, signed off by a certified > mechanic.. [who works for $$, has to charge incredible shop rates because > his shop can only be located on an airport, etc etc.] > > The old wisdom that; "If it floats, flys, or F---s , Rent it" may indeed > apply. Unless you just happen to be a trust fund baby and money is no > object. > The aviation world is well populated with people who work to fly, with > every spare nickle going to follow their dream and desire. For some, it > pays off. For many, it does not. However, even those who give up the near > holy quest to fly feel the sacrifices paid were worth the experience.. > > Follow your dream, do what you love, and you will never work a day in your > life. > > >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:29 PM, <dsereta...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Yeah, like your local anesthesiologist. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> wrote: >>> >>> Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: >>>> So you buy a plane and if you don't live on the airport like you, I >> guess you got to pay for a hangar or to park it at the airport. Seems to be >> getting more expensive by the minute. >>> >>> That's why it's so popular to own 1/3 to 1/5 of an airplane. >>> The trick is to find co-owners who are too busy making money to actually >> be using the plane when you want to fly it. >>> >>> Mitch. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
